On 30 April 2010 10:53, Bruno Girin <brunogi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 09:50 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote: >> Hello. Thanks for your post. I can't access anything on the system, >> only holding the power button can turn it off. I just know the card >> works on 9.10. >> >> Kris Douglas, > > Kris, > > When you boot the machine, press SHIFT to get the GRUB menu, then press > 'e' to edit the first line, remove 'quiet splash' at the end of the > penultimate line and press CTRL-x to boot[1]. It should now boot without > the logo and should also display a lot of things on the console. > Hopefully the last thing it displays will be a meaningful error message. > > Another thing you can do if you have another computer lying around is > enable netconsole[2] so that it sends the full boot log to the other > computer. > > [1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 > [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Netconsole > > Bruno > >> >> Sent from my HTC Hero >> >> > On Apr 30, 2010 6:45 AM, "Markie" <mark.curtis.1...@googlemail.com> >> > wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > >> > > Then the machine froze on that loading screen with the mouse on > >> > display, immobile. I couldn't e... >> > >> > Can you hit the ALT+CTRL+F1 key to get a terminal? You can then >> > access /var/log to take a look in the logs. The Xorg logs may have >> > something, personally I dont understand those logs much myself, but >> > someone on here or the ubuntuforums will be able to help. >> > >> > Also running "sudo lshw" will give useful output on hardware if you >> > get to the command line. >> > >> > >> > > > I wish I could give you more information, but I honestly can't, >> > that > is all that happens. No e... >> > >> > >> > Try searching the ubuntu forums for this card if you think its the >> > graphics. Can you try booting and running from a Live CD? How does >> > that work?
Hello, I don't have a bootable CDROM, but I have tried a live USB boot, and It doesn't work, literally exactly the same problem of the repeating bootup music. -- Kris Douglas, NODE Computer Systems Web Hosting, Design and Server Administration, Technical Support & Computer Construction T. 01200438449 M. 07728574285 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
